00:00Assalamualaikum, do you know that ants can lift 50 times more than their body weight?
00:09Or that ants grow their own food?
00:13Yes, today we will learn some facts about the world of ants that will amaze you.
00:21Fact number 1
00:23There are more than 12,000 species of ants in the world.
00:28And they are present in almost every corner of the world.
00:33Except for Intertica.
00:36Fact number 2
00:37Ants can lift 50 times more than their body weight.
00:43It is just like a person lifting a small car easily.
00:49Fact number 3
00:51You may have heard about farmers.
00:54But do you know that ants also do agriculture?
00:59Yes, a species of ants that cut leaves,
01:04cut the leaves and take them to their nests.
01:08Where they grow fungus on these leaves.
01:12And they use this fungus as a food.
01:16Fact number 4
01:18Ants also communicate with each other.
01:21But how?
01:23They secrete some chemicals called pheromones.
01:27And they communicate with each other through these pheromones.
01:31When an ant sees food somewhere,
01:36it uses a specific pheromone to show the way to the rest of the ants to reach there.
01:43Fact number 5
01:45The queen of ants is the oldest.
01:51Some queen ants can live up to 30 years.
01:56And their colonies can consist of thousands if not millions of ants.
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